Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-08
THE SMALLPOX.
A few More Cases Reported Yes.
terday.

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A few More Cases Reported Yes.
terday.
Mayor Workman reported last night
that during the day five cases OF small
pox had been discovered at the follow
ing places. Two children at 52l New
High street, child at 81 Philadelphia
street, a young girl on College street and
one man who walked into the police
station with the disease broken out on
his face. This man asked where he
should go and it did not take long to
start him on his way to the pesthouse.
At the request of Mayor Workman the
proprietors of the Club Theatre
have closed their place of amusement.
Vaccination is becoming the rule,
and all are availing themselves of
the fact that the physicians have some
excellent virus to get innoculated. Oh
ticer Hathorne was removed to tent
en- the pesthouse grounds yesterday
his wife accompanying him and
the members OF the police force
will see to it that he has
the very best care in the world. The
Health Officer makes in his report to the
City Council some very pertinent sug.
gestions as to the condition of the pest.
house. 1t is now too late to build a
new pesthouse, but at once canvas tents
should be erected on the grounds near
the pesthouse. The army surgeons here
as we'll as General Miles are OF the opin.
A. sl,A hoe, T,r
smallpox patients, as they get more air
and light there. One of the cases, q
boy about II years of age, who is in a
house the other side of the hospital,
while delirious Sunday night, escaped
from his room and was not found for
several hours.
To-day on motion of Supervisor Macy,
Supervisors were authorized to take all
necessary precautions to suppress nox.
ious or contagious diseases that may be
detected in their districts. by appoint
ing health officers, or by quarantining
localities where diseases exist.
The following dispatch, received by
the Associated Press last night, shows
that DR.. H. S. Orme, President of the
State Board of Health, thinks quaran.
tine should be established:
"SACRAMENTo, March 7.-G. G.. Tyr.
rell, Secretary of the State Board of
Health has received telegram from
the President of the Board, at Los An
geles, stating that there were twenty
five cases of smallpox in that city. There
were two new cases to-day, and the
telegram requested the secretary to call
a meeting Immediately to take steps tc.
ward establishing quarantine"
SHE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED.
A gentleman and his wife, while
breakfasting at Il restaurant on lower
Spring street yesterday morning, had a
curious experience. While tney were
seated at the table, well.dressed lady
entered and sat at the opposite side. In
q short time she opened conversation by |
saying that she supposed that the par
ties in front of her were strangers here.
No positive answer was given to this,
when she followed up the remark by |
saying: >.
''Do you know that this city is full of
smallpox"
They did not know it. On the con.
trary, they had good reason to believe
that the cases were not very numer.
Gus, and that all that there were were
kept we'll in hand by the authorities.
"Oh, bless you, nor she replied. |
'Not at all. 1t exists everywhere, and
the authorities are SO lax that a fully !
developed case was taken out Of tie
principal street just while ago."
"Indeed!'
Eyes, indeed. You might perhaps
think that am timid about the disease;
but, bless you, that's not so. My SON.
in.law is down with it bed, and | am
the only one that dares to go near him."
This was revelation that rather
opened the eyes of the gentleman and
his wife, and made them feel somewhat |
Having reused the in
terest of her hearers, the lady proceeded
in the most glib and sangfroid manner
to tell the strangers that they were just |
about to take her son.in.law to the pest
house, and that che was therefore full of
business.
At this, the gentleman asked who her
son-in.law was, and she informed him
that he was police officer.
About this time o man hurriedly en-
tered the restaurant, and held CONVEX
sation with the lady in low tone Of
voice. After he had retired, she said:
"That's my son.in.law's brother, and
he daren't go near him, SO he has to com.
municate with him through ms."
She hurriedly ate her ham and eggs,
and went to the counter. While set
Ting for her fare with the girl at the
counter, she repeated her startling
statement and left. The restaurant girl
was greatly startled, and declared that
it was an outrage that such a person
should deliberately leave smallpox
room and enter public place as she had
done.
The gentleman and his wife took the
matter coolIy, the former remarking that
probably there was not as much in it as
the woman pretended; that she wanted
to pose as q heroine, aud tried to make
herself out Drawer than she really was.
cat any rate," said the gentleman,
sit will be great blessing to the son.in.
law to be taken off, if he is doome d to